NZ Oaks winner by A Rocknroll Dance

The lightly raced but highly promising harness racing filly No Matter Wat provided her sire A Rocknroll Dance with his most important success in New Zealand when she took out the Group 1 $178,063 NZ Oaks at Addington on Sunday (December 4).

Having only her ninth start, No Matter Wat turned in a bold front-running display to win by three-quarters of a length at a career-best 1:56.8 for 2600 metres.

The win lifted her stake tally to $114,980.

A Rocknroll Dance sired a winning double at Gloucester Park with Master Publisher NZ (1:54.4) and Ima Rockabilly Rebel NZ, who sent his earnings beyond the $100,000 mark.

Whereyabinboppin became A Rocknroll Dance’s latest 1:50 credit when he clocked 1:49.8 winning the Free-for-all at Menangle.

Other Australian winners sired by A Rocknroll Dance included the three-year-olds Achromatic (Tamworth) and Lightfoot Leigh (Wagin), Duffy Hollow NZ (Kilmore), No Win No Worries (Mildura), Rockslide (Redcliffe), Burghley Shard NZ (Narrogin), Lynryd Skynryd NZ (Launceston) and Galaxy Dancer (Hobart).

A Rocknroll Dance, who stands at the new Somerset Farms stud of Pete and Chantal McMullen near Brisbane, has progeny earnings of $3.9 million in Australia this season and is ninth on the All aged sires’ list.

by Peter Wharton, for Harnesslink